Curriculum vitae - Crossroads Asia

Curriculum vitae
surname:
first name:
date of birth:
LOY
THOMAS
17.03.1973
address:
Zentralasien Seminar, IAA, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
https://www2.hu-berlin.de/zentralasien
University Education:
Oct. 1996Dec. 2003
Central-Asian studies and Cultural studies at Humboldt-University of Berlin
Sept. 2000Sept. 2001
Degree:
Dec. 2003
July 2012
Studies at the DDMT - Tajik State National University in Dushanbe (Institute for
Tajik Language and Literature)
M.A. (Magister) in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin; Thesis
title: “The Yaghnobi Case. Recollections of a Forced Migration in the TajSSR,”
(in German - Mark: 1,0) – supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf
PhD in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin; Thesis title:
“Crossborder-Biographies: Bukharan Jewish Autobiographical Narrations & the
Soviet experience.” (in English – Magna Cum Laude) - supervised by Prof. Dr.
Ingeborg Baldauf
Occupations:
Jan. 2004Oct. 2008
Research Assistant on the GIF-project „Bukharan Jews- Making Meaning of
Memories and Identity“ at the Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt-University
Berlin
since 2006
since 2006
Lecturing tutor for “Tajikistan” at GIZ in Bad Honnef, Germany
Editor of the online-magazine/blog: http://tethys.caoss.org
since July 09
Scientific member of staff at the Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt-University
Berlin
Scholarships:
Sept. 2000Sept. 2001
DAAD (German Academic Students Exchange) scholarship for the Tajik State
National University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Nov. 2002Jan. 2003
DAAD research scholarship for Tajikistan
Fields of interest and teaching:
Oral history and Commemorative Culture in Central Asia
Migration and Mobility in Soviet/Post-Soviet Central Asia
Tajik language and literature
Language skills:
Tajik, Dari, Persian - Russian - English – German
Pashto (reading)
Publications:
Monographs
2005
Jaghnob 1970. Erinnerungen an eine Zwangsumsiedlung in der Tadschikischen SSR, Wiesbaden: Reichert
Verlag (In German, 136 pages).
Edited volumes
2013
Olaf Günther, Askar Dzhumashev, Thomas Loy (eds.): Aral Histories. Geschichte und Erinnerung im
Delta des Amudarja. Wiesbaden: Reichert-Verlag.
2008
Ingeborg Baldauf, Moshe Gammer, Thomas Loy (eds.): Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century. History,
Experience and Narration, Wiesbaden: Reichert-Verlag.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters
2013
(with Olaf Günther) „Unterwegs mit Mambet Agha – Erinnerung in
Bewegung“, in Günther, Dzhumashev, Loy (Hg.) Aral Histories. Geschichte und Erinnerung im
Delta des Amudarja. Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, pp. 100-111.
“’Unmasking Enemies’ Again and Again? The Memoirs of Mordekhay Bachayev
and the Revenge of the Soviet Past.” Sonderheft ASIEN No. 129, pp.73-90.
„The Big Fraud – Recollecting the resettlement of the population of the Yaghnob valley”, in
Christine Allison, Philip G. Kreyenbroek (eds.): Remembering the past in Iranian Societies,
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 141-164.
2012
(with Askar Djumashev) “Karakalpakstan und der ‚Kilometer 80‘ – Nationalitäten und
Erinnerung in Uzbekistan.“ Osteuropa 3/2012, pp. 151-158.
2008
“About a Friend. Reflections on the Memoirs of Mordekhay Bachayev,” in Baldauf, Gammer,
Loy (eds.): Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century. History, Experience and Narration, Wiesbaden: ReichertVerlag, pp. 127-144.
“Close Relatives. The Life narration of Abrasha (Arkadi) Levayevich Il’yasov,” in Baldauf,
Gammer, Loy (eds.): Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century. History, Experience and Narration, Wiesbaden:
Reichert-Verlag, pp. 145-175
2007
“’Ba har kor ba dunyo sharoit darkor…’ – Mulohiszahoi kutohe darborai yoddoshthoi Muhib,”
(in Tajik) in Michael Zand et al (eds.), Muhib. Kulliyot, Vol. VI, Jerusalem 2007, pp. 409-417.
“Muhib: Kulliyot - Struggling against Oblivion: The Complete Works of Mordekhay ben Hiyo
Bachayev”, Steppe. A Central Asian Panorama, Vol. 3, (Winter 2007-2008), pp. 27-28.
2006
“From the mountains to the lowlands - the Soviet policy of ‘inner-Tajik’ resettlement,” TRANS,
Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, No. 16 (2006).
http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/13_2/loy16.htm
Reviews
2009
Daniel Tsadik: Between Foreigners and Shi`is: nineteen-century Iran and its Jewish Minority
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007) and Hilda Nissimi: The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: the
shaping of religious and communal identity in their journey from Iran to New York, (Brighton/
Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2007), in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 4-5, pp. 549-556.
2008
Albert Kaganvich: The Mashhadi Jews (Djedids) in Central Asia” (Halle/ Berlin: Klaus Schwarz
Verlag, 2007), Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 3, pp.784-786.
Dictionary entries
2009
In KLL - Kindlers Literaturlexikon, Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler:
Bd.1: "Sadriddin Ayni", p. 173; "Sadriddin Ayni: Joddoshtho", pp. 173-174; "Mordekhay
Bachaev", pp.767-768; "Mordekhay Bachaev: Dar juvoli sangin", p. 768;
Bd.5: "Abdurra'uf Fitrat: Bayonot-i sayyoh-i hindi", pp. 529-530;
Bd.11: "Mirsaid Mirshakar", p. 329; "Mirsaid Mirshakar: Qishloq-i tilloi", pp. 329-330.